April 29, 2023January 31, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about the taking of the SS “Alster” as a wartime prize in Leith; her hectic part in the Norwegian Campaign and the Battle of the Atlantic; life and death survival at sea; and an unlikely German sea captain
April 2, 2023February 18, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about a charity shop book that lead to the story of Captain William Thomson Dawson and the loss of the Leith tanker “Peder Bogen”
January 6, 2023January 31, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about the Edinburgh Hostels for Women Students and their brief wartime role as an Internment Camp for German “Enemy Aliens”
November 14, 2022January 31, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about the air raids on Edinburgh and Leith during WW2 and the civilian loss of life they caused
October 28, 2022February 1, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about when Portobello Marine Gardens went to war and an old seaside ballroom built landing craft
October 15, 2022February 2, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about plain breid. Its history, its politics and how the law guaranteed its enduring position in the Scottish psyche
October 12, 2022February 2, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about Watson-Watt, Wilkins and Wacław Struszyński; whose work on top-secret electronics to detect aircraft and submarines appreciably shortened World War 2
September 29, 2022February 2, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about when Henry Robb went to war; ships built in Leith during World War 2 and what became of them
September 29, 2022February 2, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about the Luftwaffe’s glow-in-the-dark bombing maps of Edinburgh and Leith and the defences that were there to stop them
September 18, 2022February 3, 2024 threadinburgh The thread about Ferranti; the electronics company who came to wartime Edinburgh to produce a top-secret local invention